High School Sports

GILROY—Live Oak wanted to get its season off to a fast start. And after Friday night’s 42-6 win opening night win over Gilroy at Christopher High, the Acorns can safely say it was a mission accomplished.

BAKERSFIELD – Live Oak High’s Isaiah Locsin and Paul Fox and Nikko Villarreal of Gilroy High each advanced this morning to tonight’s state finals of the California Interscholastic Federation state meet at Rabobank Arena.

Taylor Slattery scored on an assist from Morgan Rogers to help Gilroy High’s girls soccer team to a 1-1 tie against visiting San Benito on Friday night at Garcia Elder Sports Complex.

Gavilan College softball coach Nikki Dequin tells a detailed story of how she set out a year ago to change Elaina Vasquez’s swing.

Christopher ended the regular season on a high note, beating Monterey 7-5 Thursday at home. 

SARATOGA—Before the season, Christopher wasn’t sure how things would pan out. It had lost 12 players to graduation, but had a slew of young talent eager to learn the game. The question marks quickly started to fade as the Cougars came together and picked up lopsided wins all season long, ultimately leading to their third Central Coast Section appearance in three years.

GILROY — No matter what Christopher did, Cole Welle had an answer.

Santa Catalina had 35 straight wins heading into Thursday's contest against Christopher, but the Cougars put an end to that.  The Christopher girls golf team topped Santa Catalina 257-265 Thursday at Gilroy Golf Course.  Natalie Gutierrez scored at 47 to lead the Cougars against S.C. Julie Santiago shot a 52, Kylie Kuwada a 52, Nina Velez a 53, Alex Granados a 54 and Mia Navarro a 62. Navarro drove No. 17 green to get her first official birdie.  S.C.'s Chloe Corriveau was the medalist, shooting a 38.   CROSS COUNTRY

The Christopher swim team wasted no time at the Monterey Bay League’s Pacific Division finals Friday pulling away from its competition in the pool with relative ease.